The University of Texas has sued actor Ryan O'Neal over a painting of the late actress Farrah Fawcett done by Andy Warhol. The always arrogant O'Neal is hard to root against in this case. His rationale is logical on this rare occasion. His story is he had known Warhol for ten years when he introduced Farrah to Warhol and the artist wanted to do her portrait. He did two (they didn't require a lot of work) one was for Farrah and one for O'Neal.
When Farrah died he living will donated her art collection to the University of Texas. Farrah had attend the university in the 1960's. The university has one of the portraits but wants the other which is valued at over $30,000,000.
Granted Ryan O'Neal is sort of a putz but he and Farrah were together for many many years and he is th father of her messed up child. The University had a private investigator look for the painting and his sleuthing found the Warhol on the wall in O'Neal's home. He was able to located it by watching Ryan and Tatum O'Neals failed reality show. Didn't this once happen on the Rockford Files?
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